Beijing, Xi’an, Guilin, Giant Panda and Yangtze

Day01 Arrival in Beijing

Airport pick-up & airport-hotel transfer.

Day02 Beijing

Tiananmen Square:  Tiananmen (“Gate of Heavenly Peace”) The square contains the Monument to the People’s Heroes, the Great Hall of the People, the National Museum of China, and the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong.
Forbidden City: The Forbidden City served as the home of emperors and their households as well as the ceremonial and political center of Chinese government for almost 500 years.

A la carte lunch: glutinous rice rolls with sweet bean flour  stewed liver fermented bean drink

Temple of Heaven: The place for emperors holding annual ceremonies of prayer to Heaven for good harvest.

Kung Fu Show: Performing show of Chinese Kung Fu.

Day03 Beijing

Badaling Great Wall: the most visited section of the Great Wall, Many world leaders have made a trip to the site including Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan,  Mikhail Gorbachev and Richard Nixon.
Sacred Way:  From the Yongle Emperor onwards, 13 Ming dynasty emperors were buried in the this area, called Thirteen Tombs of the Ming Dynasty.

Bird’s Nest (drive by): The main stadium to hold on Beijing Olympic Games in 2008.

Day04 Beijing – Xian

Summer Palace: It was an imperial garden in Qing Dynasty. In December 1998, UNESCO included the Summer Palace on its World Heritage List. It declared the Summer Palace “a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design.
A la carte lunch: Pecking Duck
Hutong visit: In Beijing, hutongs are alleys formed by lines of siheyuan, traditional courtyard residences.  Many neighbourhoods were formed by joining one siheyuan to another to form a hutong.
Fly to Xian. Airport-hotel transfer.

Day05 Xian

Terracotta Warriors: A collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China.
A local family visit, Home-cooked lunch: Spending time with one local family to know more about local lifestyle and habit is also one kind of pleasure of this trip.
Xian Museum and Small Wild Goose Pagoda: one of two significant pagodas in Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, the site of the old Han and Tang capital Chang’an. The other notable pagoda is the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda
Tang Dynasty Show with dumpling dinner: The music and performing show of ancient China, Showing the peaceful and prosperous scene of the Tang Dynasty.

Day06 Xian

City Wall： In Xi’an, an ancient capital of China, represent one of the oldest, largest and best preserved Chinese city walls. It was built under the rule of the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang as a military defense system.
Provincial History Museum: one of the first huge state museums with modern facilities in China and one of the largest.
A la carte lunch: Rougamo ( Chinese hamburger ) Pita Bread So awked in lamp Soup Biangbiang noodles
Great Mosque: The largest mosque in China. An active place of worship within Xi’an Muslim Quarter, this courtyard complex is also a popular tourist site.

Free time at the Muslim Bazzar.

Day07 Xian – Guilin

Fly to Guilin and airport-hotel transfer.
Reed Flute Cave:  known as “the Palace of Natural Arts” is a landmark and tourist attraction in Guilin, Guangxi, China.

Day08 Guilin – Yangshuo – Guilin

Li River cruise to Yangshuo and Countryside trip:  With regard to China’s scenic beauty, there are two popular Chinese sayings known to many: “In heaven is paradise, on earth are Suzhou and Hangzhou.” “Guilin’s mountains and waters rank first in China and Yangshuo’s are the best in Guilin” B As for China’s tourist attractions.
Yangshuo-Guilin transfer.
Elephant Trunk Hill:  it looks like an elephant drinking water.

Day09 Guilin – Chengdu

Fly to Chengdu. Airport-hotel transfer.
Free time in the afternoon.

Day10 Chengdu

Giant Panda Breeding Base: Right place to see cute panda. Chengdu Panda Base was founded in 1987. It started with 6 giant pandas that were rescued from the wild. By 2008, it had 124 panda births, and the captive panda population has grown to 83.
Jinsha Site Museum: an archaeological site in Chengdu.
Broad and Narrow Alleys: one of the three historical culture protectorate in chengdu, the wide lane, narrow lanes and well lane three parallel arrangement between the city streets and old siheyun community composition

Day11 Chengdu – Chongqing

Free time in the morning. A bullet train to Chongqing.
Railway station to pier transfer.
Yangtze cruise sets sail at 21:30: Taking a boat on Yangtze River and watch the beautiful night view of Chongqing. Chongqing night view is famous as little Hong kong

Day12 Shibaozhai

An excursion to Shibaozhai: At the top of Shibaozhai is a three-storied hall dedicated to Manjusri built during the reign of the Xianfeng Emperor (1850–1861), called the Purple Rain Pavilion. Captain’s Welcome Party: local peoples` party.
Captain’s Welcome Party.
Day13 Shennv Stream – Xiling Gorge
Yangtze Three Gorges with an excursion to the Shennv Stream:
Ship trip, enjoy beautiful view of two sides and some historic relic on the mountains.

Day14 Yichang – Shanghai

Three Gorges Dam:  The Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest power station in terms of installed capacity.
Disembark the cruise
Yichang Museum if time allows.
Fly to Shanghai. Airport-hotel transfer.

Day15 Shanghai

Shanghai Museum: museum of ancient Chinese art, it is considered one of China’s first world-class modern museums.
Yuyuan Garden: A garden built by ancient people, and has a sense of traditional beauty.
A la carte lunch: small stuffed buns pot sticker wonton
The Bund and Huangpu River cruise: The Shanghai Bund has dozens of historical buildings, lining the Huangpu River, that once housed numerous banks and trading houses from European countries. And it is a good place to see night view and Yangtze River.

Day16 Departure from Shanghai

Hotel-airport transfer is on your own arrangement. A pleasant trip home!